.... In New York today -- a · roya l b ut raln-ewept we 1c0111 tor America's twin astronauts. Gue Gr1aaoaa and John Young pelted by rain and sleet -- driven by winds up to t•nty-t1ve ■Hes an hour - ~ traditional t icket tape parade up Broadway. But thouaanda ot New Yorkers bra,~ the el••nt1 -- to great the apace ■an. Saa pull1JC ~ ,._rican tlap traa under their raincoats -- and aving the■ at the astronauts as they passed by. The two •n bareh4taded throughout -- aa wa1 their official guide -- Vice Pre11den t ■ates l •• Bullphrey. Hu■phrey later declaring that cte.■plte the •&tber -- the astronauts had "never encountered a ■ore ar■1ng •lcoae. " When it wa• all over, 0,11 or111011 spoke tor the space twins. Asked his opinion or the reception -- he ••1~ed, raised a thumb and said si■plJ -- "It's go. " ClPI FOLLOW ASTRONAUTS Meanwhile, another work stoppage at cape Kennedy today -- the sixth in a little over a year. Pickets tr011 an out-of-town plumbers• union -- proteating the uae or non-union labor at the Cape. Turning back nearly five thousand a conatruction •n -- as they reported tor work. Thi tie-up once again halting progress -- on 10111 two hundred ■illlon dollars worth of conetruct1'll'l at thl Florida spaceport. fllT 1111 In wa1blngton--111X11111 TaJlor todaJ 1tepp1d into a tull ICbldul• ot conterenc••--•ltb tbl PNlldlnt •1 top d1ploat1c and ■illtarJ ad•l1er1. In tbl ■ornlng-­ tbt u .s. A■ba11&dor to South Viet lu--•t wltb secretarr ot stat• Dian Ru1k. In tbl att,rnoon--oonterrlns with Defina• s,cretarJ llclaaara and tbl Joint Cbllt■ ot start. 11111ral Tarlor 11 expected to bold tutblr prlnte tala wltb tbl Pl'lllcllnt 1oatllll tbll ••k. •ant1M, no let-Jp ln v11t ••· U.S. ■a•J boliber1 todaJ ralnlns tortr-tlw tou ot b•b1 , roc•t1 • napala and 1hlll1--on a 1ortb Vllt .... N radar 1tatlon. Tarpt--tbl llland ot tbl llbltl Dl'IIOft BaJ--1n tm Glllt ot 'l'onkln--onlJ elptJ-t1N ■1111 tr• Red China. '1'111 NCond AMrlcan alr 1tr1• on that COIIIIUftllt-btld l11aild-- 1n tbl laet tour daJ•• lIWMA Dr. Martin Luther Kihg 1 1 call tor a boycott ot Alabau goode~greeted cooly today in Rew tork -- by two speakers before tht Rational council or Jewish v0111n. senator 11 t Javits ot New York a11erting that "the outrage" ot tbl country -- would be tar ■ore ettective in Alaballa tban "an indi1crilllna•e boycott." Vllltney tow,g Junior -- blad ot ttil Rational Urban ~ague -- calling tor a ■ore di■or1111nat1ng approach. Adding that a total boycott would • • "no ' " d1st1nct1on -- bet•en thl good au,1 and thl bad au,1. And that in itaelt -- would bl bad. A new aerlea or earth treaora today 1n Chile -- but 1111110log11ta callinl thlll •relJ the cutoar, atterabocka -- to ye1terday' s •••l•e quake. The death toll ln tM ,..,., dl1a1ter la now placed at about two hundred and tlttJ , . . . . . . . i.11 than the original ••tlate. Stlll tbe IIONt eafthquake cl tauter ln Chll• -- • 1Dce IIIJ at llnltNn SlxtJ. • n IOIII I thouaand 11••• were loat. RIO - In a suburb or Rio 41 Janeiro --a railroad accident today at the height or the rush-hour. The laet two care or a rre ight train Juaping the rails -- and sashing into tbe last two coaches or a passing c01111uter train. In thl cromed (nearly t1tt1) c01111Uter -- ni~eteen kille~ a~,----•► 1",AinJured. P0PE - First details or Pope Paul•e instructions to hie newly-appointed International Birth Control C01111i11ion -- disclosed today at the Vatican. The Pope recognizing the need tor reasonable delays -- in a reappraisal ot the ohurch 1 1 stand on birth control. But stating that the 1ubJect calla urgently -- "tor absolutely clear indications on the part ot tbl church.• Thie utter -- said the Pope -- cannot be per■itted to expoee the conscience or un -- "to tbl uncerttintiea which too otten today 1.llpede urried lite." • COURT . The S~pre• Court today armeq e■ployera -- with a broad new weapon for breaking bargaining deadlocks. The court ruling that an employer may shut down his busineas te■porarily- - stale•t union representatives. The court thus peraa1tt1ng -- a sort of a strike-in-reverse. In a related case -- the Supre• Court ruled that an employer can close hie business entirely -- for any reason he wishes. Adding, however, that it a c011pany abuts down Juat a part of its operation .!~istblisant1-un1on ■ove -- then it's no go. RAIIBOAOO From the Interstate Coaaerce Coaission -- a • preliminary go-aheld today on the proposed merger ot the Hew York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads. An 1.c.c. examiner report recommending approval or the merger -- with • Juit one condition. That the combined railroad take over freight operations -- or the bankrupt New Raven Railroad. The examiners I report now goes before the tull Commission -- for a final decision. It approved -- as now appears likely -- the pennsy•Central consolidation -- would control nearly twenty thousand ■ilea of track in tbe U.S. and Canada -- as well as comb,ined assets or more than tive billion dollars. As such -- it would be the biggest and richest rail line -- in the nation. UllltiLLAS It '• been a rainJ daJ bare in ... York-- which bring■ up th1a next ite■--one about rain and torpttul I gulll. AnJwaJ, tbl Tokyo llltropol1tan POlice Board reporta that TokJo'• ten ■lllion --re1ident1 lo■t ■ore tban one hundred and twntJ tbouaand 1111brella1 la1t ,ear. Tbat 1 1 abat.6111 lo1t UllbNlla--tor e,er, e1gbtJ Nlident, ot tbl Japaneee capital. 11O1t ot tbl uabreila■ ■1■la1d 4ur1111 • • •atblr--wbln they are conalclered ■ore an acce11or1 to good ll'00111ng than a protection apln■t 1ncle•nt •atblr. Vblre uabrella■ are concernel--tbl Japane■e evidentlJ a torpttul people. Now 1et•1 aee-•t did I do with that naxt 1tea1 Oh, Ohl Dick, will JOU takl over a ■inute--1 think I left it with., uabrella. ORAMT Out in Willoughby, Ohio -- a controversy rages today over the naming or a new school. Right now __ the school ls called the Ulysses s. Grant Ele•ntary School. But parents and students have already started circulation ot a petition __ aimed at getting a new name. The petition observing that Grant -- althOUgh an Ohioan by birth -- "was a notoriously poor example of leadership and character." That "he appointed unqualified frienda and cheated the government." Also that "he drank too ■uch -- even through important battles." The anti-Grant group proposing that the school be renamed -- after another great military figure. A general who was -- as they put it -- "a better •n -- ■oce courageous in battle and a superior officer." Who wae nd ter than ~This general better, braver a aaar Ulysses s. Grant -- commander of the victorious Union forces 1n the Civil war? None other than Robert E. I,ee -- co11111aoder or the defe a ted South.